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I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.

I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am not a native. It can be a struggle to make word count sometimes, but I will persevere!

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same time as telling the story.

I have written stories since I was a child.

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

I have always written from a personal place.